Jyvaskylavirus is detailed in a study recently published in eLife, and named for Jyväskylä, the Finnish city where it was ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

Ebola virus is an infectious agent and one of the viruses that can cause haemorraghic fever, a severe infectious disease characterized by high fever and bleeding, in humans and some monkeys.

By Gina Kolata As many as one in five people — an estimated 64 million in the United States — have elevated levels of a tiny particle in their blood. It can greatly increase the risk of heart ...

Ebola has not been eradicated, however. This deadly virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic ... of the detailed nucleocapsid using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, visualizing molecular ...

First, scientists construct synthetic DNA, which is a lab-made version of the virus’s genetic material ... Mayaro, and Ebola viruses, which have caused significant outbreaks and pose serious ...

“So for example, as we’ve seen in the past, large outbreaks of Ebola virus have had major impacts globally, including socioeconomic impacts, so we take all those factors into account.